Ly Nguyen
9/20/2020
In the early months of COVID-19, I followed the country-by-country’s number of confirmed cases, active cases, recovered cases to see if there is any interesting pattern emerging.
Some findings were very interesting to me at the time, but since, have become common knowledge to everyone, including:
In the space of this exercise, I will only plot a time-series graph of difference between the active cases & recovered cases over time (sadly, only from February to June 2020) because I think this number best reflects the severity of the situation and whether the country has the disease under control or not.
If active cases - recovered cases exhibits a downward trend, and eventually gets to negative, COVID is under control.
I also split the data into Region, as specified by the UN, to see which regions have been most effective.
As the USA, at the time of data collection, accounted for almost half of the world’s infected cases, I decided to take it out as a separate region, so as not to skew the data.
Hope you find this interesting. I’m done talking.